List of 250 Swiss-based language service providers registered as a corporation (AG) or limited liability company (GmbH). Continue reading
New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource languages, less so for the rest, results show. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
‘Incredibly Vibrant’ — VCs Excited About Natural Language Processing in 2019
Venture capitalists see opportunity as startups begin to apply breakthroughs in transfer learning and new language models, such as BERT, ELMo, OpenAI's GPT-2, and ULMFiT. Continue reading
Memsource Mobile: First Mobile App to Offer Complete Translation Tool for PMs and Linguists
Latest version of Memsource Mobile App looks set to disrupt the market with the inclusion of the first mobile-based CAT tool. Continue reading
How Netflix Does Subtitling for the World (ex China)
How Netflix handles subtitling, grew subscriptions by adding languages, and why it stays out of China, for now. Continue reading
Japan’s Rozetta More Than Triples MT Revenues in Q1 FY2020
Japanese language service and tech provider Rozetta Corp. posts strong growth in machine translation revenues, launches new entity called Xtra. Continue reading
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Reader Polls: MT and Subject Matter Expertise, Future CAT, Outperforming LSPs
Is subject matter expertise gaining at the expense of source language proficiency? Has the future CAT yet to be invented? Will LSPs continue to delight investors? Continue reading
Trump Administration’s Deregulation Drive Begins to Impact Language Industry
Changes are underway in the US judiciary and healthcare systems that may begin to impact demand for language services from boutique and large LSPs alike. Continue reading
Yes, Post-Editese Is Real, Study Finds
Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs. Continue reading
Multilingual Chatbots: The Conversation Has Yet to Get Longer
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges. Continue reading
New Language Industry IPO as Korea’s Flitto Prepares for Scalability-Based Listing
First, Appen. Now, Flitto. Language data startup Flitto, which is about to list on Korean electronic trading platform Kosdaq, has attracted high, early demand for shares. Continue reading
SDL Gearing Up for General Release of AI-Packed SDL Language Cloud
Set to go live in September 2019, SDL Language Cloud combines productivity, workbench, and PM features in an end-to-end solution for continuous localization. Continue reading
Acolad Buys Livewords as It Accelerates Up the Language Industry Food Chain
Serial acquirer Acolad buys Livewords in a move to further consolidate the language industry in Western Europe. Continue reading
Creator of Trados Joins Summa Linguae Board, Says CAT Tools Will Become Obsolete
Trados founder Jochen Hummel discusses the demise of the product category he helped create, what has delayed full NMT disruption, and what’s next for human translators. Continue reading
Indian Government to Invest USD 65m in Translation for Sci-Tech Students
What could be the Indian government’s biggest translation venture to date will use machine and human translation to make science and technical education available to Indians in their own language. Continue reading
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